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Stop and look around you. Do you see adults, children, teenagers, and older adults? For healthcare workers to provide the best care for their patients and clients, they must be aware of the physical, psychological, social, cognitive, and emotional aspects of specific age groups. This continuing education course will review the knowledge and skills necessary to collect blood specimens based on the age related needs of patients.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) annually publishes ICD-10-CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting in addition to new, revised, and deleted codes; changes in code descriptions; index revisions; and more. Each year coders must review the new guidelines to assure they have the most up to date information to accurately use ICD-10-CM codes. This CE course will describe the important FY2018 updates to the ICD-10-CM Guidelines.

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The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) contains an often misunderstood section of codes that offers ways to code situations that do not represent medical conditions or injuries called Z codes. Many times patients require medical care for circumstances other than medical conditions or injuries such as follow up care, observation, and screening. These circumstances represent valid needs for medical care so it is important to learn to recognize them and assign Z codes accurately. Z codes also play an important role in healthcare statistics when ICD-10-CM data are studied for healthcare spending and medical research. Because of the importance of Z code messages, it is crucial to learn to recognize occasions to assign Z codes and to sequence them according to the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. The specific topics covered in this course are Z codes in general, sequencing guidelines, Follow-up, History, Observation, and Screening Z codes.